Tag: Chris Gratton

The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events, edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Rasmus K. Storm and Kamilla Swart (Edward Elgar) examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Christian Tolstrup Jensen has read an impressive compilation of scientific studies in the field of major sport event research that gives the initiated reader a useful and nuanced overview of the state-of-the-art in event studies, its understudied areas and a who-is-who in the field.

Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, edited by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Borja García & Benoit Séguin (Routledge) presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates, challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games, across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Our reviewer Björn Sandahl contends that the handbook serves as a rich introduction to its field of study and thus should be of great interest to students and the interested general public.

For her edited volume Contemporary Issues in Sport Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage Publications), Terri Byers have engaged a large number of contributing scholars of sport management, probing central issues in the field. Søren Bennie is our reviewer, and while pointing to a few weak points, his balanced assessment is that it’s a valuable and useful contribution to this research field.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Management, edited by Leigh Robinson, Packianathan Chelladurai, Guillaume Bodet & Paul Downward, gets a constructively critical, thoroughly readable, and vastly instructive review by Cecilia Stenling.

In his knowledgeable review of Handbook of Research on Sport and Business, an anthology from Edward Elgar edited by Sten Söderman and Harald Dolles, Hans Lundberg cleverly uncovers and balances its weak points as well as its strengths.

David Cardell Linköpings universitet  Chris Gratton & Ian Jones Research Methods for Sport Studies: Second Edition 304 sidor, hft, with companion website. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2010 ISBN 978-0-415-49393-2 Idrottsvetenskap är ett flerdisciplinärt fält...

Bo Carlsson EN DEL SAMMANTRÄFFANDEN har säkert en större mening än vad man kan ana, och rör sig inte bara om slump och tillfälligheter. Ett sådant...